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A legislative committee is getting updates on complaints facing the private food vendor that won
the contract to feed Ohio inmates.

Reports indicate that employees with Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services have
repeatedly failed to provide food or have run out of it since beginning work in September.

Reports also document several days when Aramark employees failed to show up, cases of
unauthorized relationships between inmates and Aramark workers and five reports since January of
maggots in food or the preparation process.

The Correctional Institution Inspection Committee said it will hear an update from Ohio prisons
director Gary Mohr on Wednesday afternoon along with other witnesses.

Aramark has called the complaints part of an anti-privatization effort and said it’s making
steady progress managing operations.

Earlier this year, the state fined Aramark $142,100 for contract violations, including failing
to hire enough workers to prepare and serve meals.